Hastebin speed with encrypted one-time sharing.
Keep the paste-and-share flow, then add passwords, expiry, Markdown, and burn-after-read. It is still fast, but built for private snippets too.
Encrypted by default
AES-256-GCM in your browser. The key lives only in the URL — the server never sees it.
No ads. No captchas.
Just paste and share. No accounts, no walls.
No paywalled features
Markdown, burn-after-read, syntax highlighting, expiry — all free.
Hastebin is the spiritual ancestor of textdrop.sh: minimal and fast. But it stops there. Hastebin pastes are URL-accessible, its documented API returns paste contents directly, and Toptal documents 7-day availability for unauthenticated users and 30-day availability for authorized users with no per-paste expiry setting. textdrop.sh takes Hastebin's frictionless UX and adds browser-side encryption, password protection, burn-after-read, and configurable expiry.
Is Hastebin encrypted or private?+
Hastebin does not document client-side or end-to-end encryption, password-protected viewer access, or private encrypted pastes. Its documented API returns paste contents directly, and pastes are accessible to anyone who knows the URL. textdrop.sh encrypts every paste with AES-256-GCM in your browser before upload; the decryption key lives only in the URL fragment and the server cannot read any paste.
What happened to the original Hastebin?+
The original Haste project was created by John Crepezzi, and Hastebin is now hosted by Toptal at toptal.com/developers/hastebin. The open-source Haste server code is publicly available, and community-run self-hosted instances based on the open-source code still exist.
Does Hastebin have paste expiry?+
Not in a per-paste, user-controlled way documented by Toptal. Hastebin documents 7-day availability for unauthenticated users and 30-day availability for authorized users, but no per-paste expiry selector. textdrop.sh supports configurable expiry from 1 hour to 30 days.
Is textdrop.sh a good Hastebin alternative?+
Yes. textdrop.sh offers everything Hastebin does (fast, no-account paste sharing with a raw endpoint) plus AES-256-GCM encryption, password protection, burn-after-read, configurable expiry, Markdown rendering, and genuine privacy controls, all for free.
